NOT LOVELY is an experimental jazz band, a radical hip hop group, and an existential crisis rolled into one. Three years in the making, they are releasing their debut album, matterlightblooming. A jazz epic, a transcendental give and take between death and reanimation, a glittery fist in the face of God. The album was produced by over a dozen musicians across multiple Chicago studios, a product of sweat, blood, conflicting schedules, and frozen custard. It is finally free, and beautiful, and $9.99. Let us celebrate the renaissance in all of its glory. Kill the predictable. Build a church for the genre-agnostics. Praise art, and bless the renaissance.